{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2059","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>For the Lord, revealing Himself to His disciples, that He Himself is the Word, who imparts knowledge of the Father, and reproving the Jews, who imagined that they, had [the knowledge of] God, while they nevertheless rejected His Word, through whom God is made known, declared, \"No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whom the Son has willed to reveal [Him].\"[60]</p><p>For the Son is the knowledge of the Father; but the knowledge of the Son is in the Father, and has been revealed through the Son; and this was the reason why the Lord declared: \"No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; nor the Father, save the Son, and those to whomsoever the Son shall reveal [Him].\"[69]</p><p>Vain, therefore, ark those who, because of that declaration, \"No man knoweth the Father, but the Son,\"[83]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I</p><p>Of late, then, God was known by the coming of Christ: \"For no man knoweth God but the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal Him.\"[43]</p><p>It is this same Father of His, then who being one is manifested by many powers And this was the import of the utterance, \"No man knew the Father,\"[176]</p><p>And He first announced the good righteousness that is from heaven, when He said, \"No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; nor the Father, but the Son.\"[234]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V</p><p>\"No one,\" says the Lord, \"hath known the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal Him.\"[156]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>Whence also this kind of cattle are apt to slip, not having a division in the foot, and not resting on the twofold support of faith. For \"no man,\" it is said, \"knoweth the Father, but he to whom the Son shall reveal Him.\"[188]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV</p><p>of the law and the prophets which we have thus far found effected in Christ. \"All things,\" He says, \"are delivered unto me of my Father.\"[1008]</p><p>But \"no man knoweth who the Father is, but the Son; and who the Son is, but the Father, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.\"[1017]</p><p>Tertullian Against Praxeas</p><p>;[374]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book I</p><p>For as it is said of the Son, that \"no one knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him,\"[70]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book II</p><p>Jesus taught us who it was that sent Him, in the words, \"None knoweth the Father but the Son; \"[189]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>Or when, moreover, by the same it is asserted and said: \"All things are delivered to me by my Father? \"[211]</p><p>Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes</p><p>: Those sayings which are put forth by the blessed Paul were not uttered without the direction of God, and therefore it is certain that what he has declared to us is that we are to look for our Lord Jesus Christ as the perfect one, who[384]</p><p>Recognitions of Clement II</p><p>e world; and Enoch knew him, inasmuch as he was translated by him; and Noah, since he was ordered by him to construct the ark; and although Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and all, even every people and all nations, know the maker of the world, and confess him to be a God, yet your Jesus, who appeared long after the patriarchs, says: `No one knows the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any one the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son has been pleased to reveal Him.'[60]</p><p>Clementine Homily XVII</p><p>For the framer of the world was known to Adam whom He had made, and to Enoch who pleased Him, and to Noah who was seen to be just by Him; likewise to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; also to Moses, and the people, and the whole world. But Jesus, the teacher of Peter himself, came and said,[8]</p><p>Clementine Homily XVIII</p><p>And Simon said: \"How, then, if the framer of the world, who also fashioned Adam, was known, and known too by those who were just according to the law, and moreover by the just and unjust, and the whole world, does your teacher, coming after all these, say,[7]</p>","source_html_sha256":"17944006d070123cd9f5adc1d4a75cfd7a2b7f9d6add65a7beaf901463fb66f6","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2059,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"686253e8759181f60c375857b1569b379d1f8f9a41728b6155045affb726db10","translator":null,"work":null}